Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the snake closes in for the kill , its mouth sensors guide it with deadly accuracy . |
| 2 | Feathered legs separate it from all other same-sized birds of prey , except smaller eagles . |
| 3 | Most modern text-writers state it with some slight , hesitant reservation ( and this is thought to be the correct view ) . |
| 4 | Eyes have it with new sight cure |
| 5 | And there 's a filter light and he said oh you 'll be waiting here ages put it in neutral just as |
| 6 | Pinball barons chance it with Japanese MPs |
| 7 | Yachting can survive as a spectator sport , but the participants owe it to future generations not to promote tobacco consumption as part of their lifestyle . |
| 8 | Their seniors bestow it with increasing effectiveness as their seniority increases . |
| 9 | These positions have it in common that they express a view about how company law should regulate corporate power in the public interest : by introducing social welfare considerations as explicit decision-making criteria , or by excluding them and relying instead on the benign effects of the invisible hand , guided where necessary by external legal controls . |
| 10 | Secondary teachers find it of most use in changing priorities ( least , primary ) . |
| 11 | It was another American gesture , though far fewer Americans do it in these cancer-conscious days . |
| 12 | teachers see it as natural justice ( comparison with colleagues reduces isolation and gives them a yardstick ) ; |
| 13 | Cliftonville manager Frankie Parks put it like this : ‘ There was a lot of frustration on the day but the better side won . |
| 14 | Bees collect it in great baskets on their thighs and take it back to their hives for immediate consumption or for turning into pollen bread which is an essential food for their developing young . |
| 15 | So that was four men do it in twelve hours , how many in two . |
| 16 | It can be spoilt if publicans serve it by unnatural methods . |
| 17 | So when the Danes reconsider it in another referendum on May 18th , will most Europeans know what is at stake ? |
| 18 | The difference is that , while women see motherhood in emotional , hormonal terms , men see it as some sort of role-play . |
| 19 | Where the husband is unemployed , the UK 's national insurance laws make it of little financial advantage for a woman to take low-paid work . |
| 20 | Estimates put it at 40,000 million gallons of flood water . |
| 21 | Each program is designed so that most students complete it in 45 to 50 mins , ie. the average tutorial hour . |
| 22 | I WONDER whether Commonwealth students find it at all odd to attend an institution called ‘ Imperial College ’ . |
| 23 | Some scholars and politicians opposed to the Supreme Court 's 1973 abortion decision now argue that the Constitution should be understood to leave decisions about abortion to the various states , so that some could permit abortion on demand , others prohibit it in all circumstances , and others adopt intermediate regimes . |
| 24 | As Timberlake and his colleagues put it in this brief but incisive review , greens ‘ suggest that this thing called the environment is a sacred garden set aside from human activities . ’ |
| 25 | And — in answer to the second question — the only reason that oxygen gas exists in such large amounts in the atmosphere today is that plants and some bacteria produce it in vast quantities through photosynthesis . |
| 26 | Spiders use it for all kinds of purposes — making egg-sacs , lining nests , weaving tents for their babies and as safety lines when they jump . |
| 27 | Archaeologists date it to 3,700 years BC and while its excavated eastern end is open to the public , its western end has always remained closed . |